Hotter on Bumble, Part 1

Why Oh Why

Andrea Silenzi

Personal Journals, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bumble is held up as Silicon Valley's gift to single women. Finally, a dating app made with us in mind. But after you download the app and start swiping, does it live up to the reputation? In this episode, you heard clips from all our focus group episodes (#1, #13, #26), and our episode about The Bachelor (#23). Valerie Woolard is a developer with Megaphone, the technology side of Panoply. She tweets: @valeriecodes Satnam Narang works at Symantec, and has been following spam and bots on Tinder since 2013. He tweets: @satnam To discuss this week's episode, head to facebook.com/whyohwhyradio or tweet with #whyohwhy. You can find Andrea on Twitter as @andreasilenzi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Panoply.
0:06.0	The following podcast contains explicit language. When the dating app Bumble arrived, I was its number one fan.
0:23.0	Oh, you're using the apps?
0:25.0	You guys on the app?
0:26.0	Nah.
0:27.0	Nah.
0:28.0	Not like Tender, not Tender.
0:29.0	Bumble?
0:30.0	I just downloaded Bumble yesterday.
0:32.0	Bumble's great. I'm a fan.
0:34.0	I'm saying that like I've actually used it,
0:37.0	which at the time I hadn't.
0:38.0	This was from a day when I was talking to women in line to audition for the television show The Bachelor.
0:44.2	And back then, I had a boyfriend, but I still thought I knew Bumble's entire deal.
0:49.8	Today on the show and next week we are diving deep into the yellow dating app. I want to find
0:54.9	out why it's not working for me because I so wanted it to work for me. This is like the
1:01.6	only redeeming thing about my breakup.
1:04.0	I remember this glimmer of like, oh well at least I can join Bumble.
1:08.0	But then once I actually had it and started using it, I quickly learned what everyone on the
1:16.1	app already knows, but no one is talking about Bumble.
1:25.0	Bumble, let's go back in time through some never before aired Y-O-Y moments.
1:33.0	And we'll hear all the times Bumble came up
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